PressReader.com | Fury as Amnesty brands JK’s rape charity ‘anti-rights’ over Potter author’s trans views
Agent P on X - "You would think that human rights organisations would be defending vulnerable women, not criticising services created for them. 🤔"
Thread by @MensNetwork1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Amnesty International chose to libel the Gay Men's Network as an "anti-rights" group along with several LBG organisations. We object to NGOs who espouse gender ideology misusing their formidable funding and influence in this fashion and we are seeking a formal apology. Amnesty has absolutely no right to dictate what political opinions gay men may or may not hold on gender ideology. It has no right to "evidence launder" a list of dissent lesbian and gay groups as targets for opprobrium or public condemnation. Making lists of political enemies is the sort of activity Amnesty used to actively and admirably campaign against, now it does precisely that. Further, the "report" in question counsels unlawful belief discrimination by regulators and funding bodies. The Charity sector preaches diversity yet is singularly intolerant of Gay Men and Lesbians who correctly analyse gender ideology as deeply homophobic from the denial of same sex attraction to the scandal of high numbers of same-sex attracted youth at gender clinics. For the avoidance of any doubt, we will not allow libels from Amnesty to scare or intimidate us. We are gay men who have faced prejudice and discrimination all of our lives and a captured charity engaging in libel is anaemic by comparison to what most gay men have experienced. We affirm out commitment to fighting the dangerous and draconian Conversion Practices Bill Amnesty supports and we repeat our criticism that it exploits real gay pain in order to terrify parents of children experiencing distress around gender. We are currently in the process of updating our website. When it is complete the letter will also be posted publicly there, just as Amnesty's libels of us and other LGB organisations were made public. We urge the Charity Commission to urgently consider action in this matter. It cannot be right for charities to compile lists of political opponents and public libel them in this way. The gender corruption of the 3rd sector is a huge issue. It is time to act."
Maya Forstater on X - "For years we were told that trans rights and women’s rights could not in any way be in conflict. Amnesty's smearing of Beira's Place makes very clear that women's rights just don't count."
Left wingers still claim that rights are like cake - more for one doesn't mean less for others
John Cleese on X - "I was once a major fund-raiser for Amnesty. But in those days it was about preventing torture. Not about sexual identity. I disown them"
vittorio on X - "it's really sad seeing how they keep parading ellen page around like this little sacrificial object to remind themselves how good and woke they are. everyone can see how she's a sad, broken woman who's been abused and betrayed by everyone around her but no one cares about her enough to have the basic decency to tell her the truth, that she looks ridiculous and has ruined her life. they just keep the parade going so they can feel morally superior while she pays the price. ironically, all the "bigot transphobes" care more about these people than anyone around them validating their delusions"
Wesley Yang on X - "There are many people who claim in all sincerity to have been saved by giving all their money to Scientology or the Moonies. This may even be true. We look at them and feel pity -- but the cult gave them what they were lacking in life. It gave them community. It gave them a sense of purpose. It gave a structure to their desire and their striving. That is what cults sell and what its salesmen sell successfully precisely because they are themselves true believers in their product because they did in fact derive many of the benefits they sell to others from their own immersion in the cult. This is what transgenderism sells to its adherents. It sells a story of magical self-transformation that is also the attainment of an authentic self. It does so through rituals of self-mortification that impose a sunk cost so great on those inflicting them on themselves that escaping the resulting immersion in a fictive, pseudo-reality that would vindicate such a sacrifice -- constructed in the same way that all social realities are constructed, through institutional validation -- becomes nearly impossible. "Death before detransition." It does so by creating intense trauma bonds between those who have undergone the rituals, which are further intensified by the cultivated sense of being oppressed unto death by the cisnormative world that surrounds them. In a liberal, pluralistic society that honors freedom of speech and freedom of association, we don't ban commercial cults. We allow them to proselytize. What we don't do is give them access to schools to recruit children, we don't brainwash children in the millions to accept their beliefs as the only truth, we don't give their cult rituals the imprimatur of medicine, we don't allow them to use state power to force people to pay obeisance to their cult dogmas. The President doesn't affirm their dogmas or direct his executive agencies to propagate them. Transgenderism is novel in this way. Sharing aspects of many prior group psychological phenomenon -- the social contagions of eating disorders and Recovered Memory Syndrome, the business model of multi-level marketing schemes, the trauma-bonding of the gang initiation or the hazing ritual -- it melded these elements with institutional capture via two masquerades in which it successfully passed as something it is not: firstly, as a form of medicine, secondly, as a civil rights movement. Undoing this unbelievable concatenation may actually be beyond the critical and epistemic capacities of the Western world."
J Stewart on X - "🤯 Listen to this extraordinary exchange between Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping.
Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?”
Murray: “No, I don’t.”
Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?”
Murray: “Yes.”
Camilla: “Why?”
Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women. Camilla hits back: “You must have known that before. You are very well educated. How on earth can you have previously thought that a woman can have a penis?” He had no real answer. Because there isn’t one. This is not some backbench MP. This is the Secretary of State for Health, the man responsible for the entire NHS, puberty blocker policy, women’s health services, and child safeguarding. He spent years either believing or pretending to believe that biological sex is fluid and that women can have penises. Only now, when the Cass Review, court rulings, and public opinion have made that position politically toxic, has he magically “changed his mind”. Think about the damage done while he held that view. The eroded women’s rights. The confused children fast-tracked toward hormones and surgery. The female prisoners and athletes forced to share spaces with biological males. All enabled or ignored by senior Labour figures like him. This level of ideological delusion at the very top of government is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous. Basic biology should never have been up for debate, let alone something a Health Secretary had to “evolve” on."
Canada Sticks With Gender-Affirming Care Despite Cass Review Evidence (aka "How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’: A Quillette Investigation") - "The idea that doctors should uncritically heed a patient’s self-diagnosis was an unsettling innovation, and one that is generally alien to other branches of health care. To this day, the Canadian Paediatric Society proselytises the idea of gender identity as a soul-like ether that most children can categorise reliably when they are just three years old. In many cases, old-fashioned conservative stereotypes about what boys and girls are supposed to wear, what colours they should prefer, and what toys they should play with have been transformed into purportedly meaningful indicators that could eventually serve to propel a child down a life path that includes amputated body parts and a lifelong drug regime. Possible evidence of gender identity, the CPS indicates to parents who consult its “Caring for Kids” resources, for instance, includes the fact that she refuses to put on a dress, “even on special occasions.” By the early 2020s, the mania for “affirmation” properly became an object of concern among medical experts, who noted that the underlying theory was based more on slogans than science; and that the studies purporting to support GAC’s efficacy typically were marked by small samples, biased design, and circular reporting. A vocal detransitioner community emerged, with harrowing tales of gender-clinic doctors eagerly expressing their “allyship” with a hastily produced set of drug prescriptions. All of this has been pointed out to the CPS leadership in peer-reviewed form. But the organisation still stands by its original 2023 Position Statement on the subject of GAC—a document that exhorts Canadian doctors to adopt an “affirming approach to routine health care provision for all youth,” and enshrine gender-affirming care as the unquestioned “standard of care for transgender or gender-diverse youth.” The timing of the CPS Position Statement was unfortunate, as it came less than a year before Dr Hilary Cass, a former president of Britain’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, released a blockbuster Report that exhaustively analysed the international evidence for and against gender-affirming care. Critics had been picking GAC apart for years by this point. But what Dr Cass achieved was on another level: The Cass Review, as it has come to be called, was the most authoritative analysis of the available literature regarding the treatment of gender dysphoric minors that had ever been published. It still is. Dr Cass concluded that the “potential risks to neurocognitive development, psychosexual development, and longer-term bone health” associated with the use of puberty blockers to treat trans-identified children are substantial.” Her analysis also showed that the widespread claim that “hormone treatment reduces the elevated risk of death by suicide” among trans-identified youth isn’t supported by the available evidence. This latter conclusion was especially important, because the morbid claim that trans-identified children are at imminent risk of suicide without rapid and enthusiastic “affirmation” from all quarters had always been deployed as a propaganda weapon of last (and sometimes first) resort by activists and “gender-affirming” medical personnel. Indeed, many whistleblowing parents who’d expressed scepticism of the GAC provided to their children have reported hearing some version of this ghoulish theme from zealous therapists and doctors. Moreover, the idea that gender affirmation was a form of suicide prevention turned what had once been a medical debate into a contest of moral virtue, as it allowed GAC proponents to present their movement in heroic life-or-death terms—an epic human-rights struggle against heartless (and presumably transphobic) naysayers who were prepared to condemn transgender children to the grave. To this day, in fact, this self-valorizing nature of the GAC movement seems to be one of the main attractions for social-justice minded medical-school graduates. Critics initially tried to dismiss Dr Cass as a stooge of right-wing Bible-thumpers, and confidently predicted that her analysis would collapse under scrutiny. But that didn’t happen. Just the opposite, in fact: The British Medical Union (BMU), the trade union for British doctors, spent two years trying to debunk the Cass Review at the behest of the union’s pro-GAC activist constituency. Yet once this singularly thorough investigation of Dr Cass’s work wrapped up in early 2026, the BMU wound up conceding that Dr Cass’s “robust” analysis had been vindicated. Dr Cass’s report effectively sounded the death knell for the “affirmation” model in the UK, and did much to accelerate the rollback of GAC policies internationally—and not just in conservative jurisdictions such as Republican-controlled U.S. states. Socially progressive nations that have rolled back GAC-style policies in recent years include not only the UK, but also Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, and Italy. Since the Cass Review was published, more primary research has emerged in support of Dr Cass’s conclusions. This includes newly released Finnish data, covering every under-23-year-old individual who’d been referred for gender treatment in Finland between 1996 and 2019—a cohort containing almost 2,100 people. Following gender-clinic referrals, the study found, clinically trans-affirmed patients exhibited greater psychiatric morbidity than members of a control group... I (somewhat earnestly) concluded my May 12 article with a prediction that the CPS would surely (if belatedly) catch up with its international counterparts... the CPS made nonsense of my words with the choice of its new President: an unusually zealous gender-affirmation advocate named Natasha Johnson."
Jonathan Kay on X - "One astounding thing that I learned while researching my @Quillette investigation of the Cdn Paediatric Society is that Dr. Daniel Metzger, who co-wrote the CPS "Position Statement" on the claimed merits of "gender-affirming care," thinks the Cass Review is a "pile of garbage""
Meme - Just passing through: "The homophobic London Pride.... Rejects homosexuals who won't bend the knee to the poisonous TQcult. #LGBwithouttheTQ"
Pride in London: ""Same sex attracted" is just another word for Nazis. We don't need you here."
Time to call those who reject trans mania homophobic
bitchuneedsoap on X - "I spent time inside a “trans help” group posing as a minor who needed to hide everything from my parents. The adults in the group did not pause. They did not redirect me to a doctor. They did not suggest telling a parent. They gave me sourcing instructions, supplier links, and workflows for obtaining DIY hormones discreetly. Adults, coaching a child on how to medically transition behind their parents’ backs. I will be exposing this network in the coming days."
Theresa Verity on X - "I first worked out what I was at age 5. What fetish was it that I, as a 5 year old, was experiencing? Please at least try and make a coherent argument"
Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ on X - "Oh, boy, did you get the wrong woman. I’m a homicide investigator with experience working sex crimes, and I am _happy_ to explain why it’s still a fetish - to you, and to anyone else who wants to read along. See, fetishes/paraphilias often start in prepubescence, long before any sort of sexual awakening. Some start even earlier than five. Jerome Brudos, for example, began his obsession with women’s shoes at the age of 4. He later went on to murder and mutilate multiple women, cutting off their feet so as to model his shoe collection for photographs. He was an AGP too, by the way - or a transvestitic fetishist, if you prefer the traditional term. Lots of serial killers are; I can name half a dozen off the top of my head: BTK, Ed Gein (who was making himself a woman suit out of real women and is one of the models for Buffalo Bill) Russell Williams, Jacques Coatzee, Beate Schmidt, and Harvey Marcelin, for starters. There are plenty more. But I’m getting sidetracked. Brudos is hardly the only example of a fetishist who experienced early stirrings, as it were. Enter any online fetish community, and you will find users who had a strong prepubescent affinity for what has now become a full-fledged paraphilia. Claiming to have “known” since you were 5 in no way precludes your obsession with possessing a female body from being fetishistic. Given your attitude that your self-induced gynecomastia is your most important “womanly” trait, I’d say it’s a certainty that you’re a fetishist. Tell me, do you get euphoria boners like so many other “transwomen” do when they crossdress?"
ripx4nutmeg on X - "Bodycam footage has just been released of police visiting an American campus last year following the report of a car theft. Unfortunately for them, the first person they meet is a cross-dressing student, who throws repeated and aggressive tantrums over his gender identity."
Devon Eriksen on X - "What you are seeing here isn't individual mental illness. It's a culture clash between a matriarchal and patriarchal system. Women are evolved to take care of babies. Their notion of fairness, justice, and the way things "should" be are therefore evolved around the needs of babies. All babies are important, all babies must be taken care of, and the babies who are the highest priority are the ones most urgently in need. Babies signal need by crying. So, in a matriarchal system, resources, attention, and influence are steered towards whoever creates the most urgent appearance of need, by crying the loudest. Men are evolved to hunt wild game, often large and dangerous game, in teams. Their notion of fairness, justice, and the way things "should" be are therefore evolved around the needs of the team. Teams need men to take risks, and endure hardship, for the sake of accomplishing a goal. So, in a patriarchal system, resources, attention, and influence are steered towards whoever appears to be contributing the most to, or sacrificing the most for, the mission or the overall welfare of the team. This weird guy having a meltdown on camera is, indeed, delusional. He thinks he is a woman. But this delusion is not brought on by normal, individual mental illness. Instead, it is brought by cultural illness, which is the mental illness of an entire society. He is hyper-adapted to the matriarchal subculture he exists in, where the most effective social strategy is to be the neediest of all the babies. Then, along comes a patriarchal team... the police. They have a mission... to resolve the complained-of disturbance, so they can get on the the next mission of investigating a stolen car. Our subject immediately tries to wield social power by signalling distress, as he has been taught to do. But this does not result in social power over the policeman, because the policeman is patriarchal and doesn't think that way. Instead, he thinks about his mission. To resolve a "disturbance", which has probably only been vaguely described to him on the radio, and that's all the information he has. So, to him, the mission is to calm shit down. And the biggest threat, obstacle, or challenge to the mission is whoever is most visibly spazzing out. So our subject's power strategy, tuned for a matriarchal culture, actually makes him the biggest threat to the mission. So the policemen engage him, as the primary target, subdue him, control him, and remove him from the scene. Once this is done, peace and tranquility are restored, and they can, presumably, get on with their car theft call. However, our subject still doesn't understand what he did wrong, or why this is happening to him. Had he been contacted by agents of a matriarchal power structure, the response to his tantrums would have been increased attention and care, in an attempt to "deescalate" his emotional state. But the patriarchal solution is not to deescalate just because someone is agitated. It is to apply whatever solution will resolve the immediate problem the most quickly and cheaply. In this case, that meant escalating to the minimum level of force necessary to remove the source of trouble from the scene. Which was the result he got. There are generally no magic words you can say to someone that will undo decades of cultural and institutional programming in a minute or two. This guy might appear crazy to you, but the important thing to understand is that he is not just individually cracked or bonkers. He is the result of a systematic process that cranks out crackpots like an assembly line. And that process is inevitable in any culture where female political power outweighs male political power. Instead of competing to play the hardest and best and be the MVP, people compete to cry the loudest and be the neediest baby."
Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 on X - "I can't believe this is real. The Chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that a "vast majority of pregnancies are in women." Implying some pregnancies occur in men. When asked directly whether a non-biological woman has ever had a baby, he refused to answer. This is the head of one of the top medical schools in the country."
Time to condemn Creationists for refusing to recognise biological facts and causing harm
Colorado Principled Physicians on X - "UCSF Chancellor Samuel Hawgood is a neonatologist pediatrician with history of many years of clinical practice being around mothers who have just given birth, being paid to care for their sick babies. What kind of trans industry sellout do you really have to be to say something like this? If a man can lie publicly that men can get pregnant - something so easy to disprove - what will he not lie about? We are not afraid of telling the truth about the very fundamentals of human existence and origins: women, and only women, can get pregnant. Put that in your pipe and try not to inhale the smoke, Dr Samuel Hawgood. We hope you will apologize to the public and act more worthy of your medical license in future."
Wesley Yang on X - "A 70-year white male leader of an important medical institution is humiliating himself before the whole world because he is subject to the same power that now holds millions of elementary schoolchildren in its grips. The same false dogmas he must parrot and defer to are being taught to millions of schoolchildren as the only truth. If an eminent physician and institutional leader cannot resist the enforced lies, what hope does your 11-year old daughter have? If the Democrats regain power and pass the Equality Act, the same power that compels him to lie and abase himself will be inflicted onto every American citizen."
Wesley Yang on X - "He didn't answer the question about non-biological women because he doesn't actually know any of the dogmas he is forced to parrot in order to remain in good standing within the university: only biological women have babies; some of those women who have babies pretend to be men, ("Trans men,") and thus "men can have babies" because "Trans Men are Men." Men who pretend to be women ("trans women") do not have babies because they are men and only women (including women who pretend to be men, whom we are all obliged to call "men" because "Trans Men are Men") can give birth."
Sam Morgan on X - "When you say: "The problem isn't trans women it's cis men." We all hear: "The problem isn't men, it's men." It makes you sound crazy."
Meme - "Alphabet People: "We're oppressed"
Literally everything: *long escalator in subway station with Pride flag on both walls and on central area as far as the eye can see*"
Meme - Non-Passing MTF: "FOR MY FINAL WISH, I WISH TO BE A WOMAN."
Genie: "DONE."
Non-Passing MTF: "NOTHING HAPPENED?"
Genie: "CORRECT! TRANSWOMEN ARE women."
*Puzzled Non-Passing MTF*
*Angry Non-Passing MTF*
The Wall Street Journal on X - "The transgender-rights movement has lost nearly all of its ground in red states, and is on the defensive in blue states. How did it happen?"
Jonathan Kay on X - "i have no idea. it's a complete mystery"
Meme - *Ontario NDP Kristyn Wong Tam photo op*
"Protect 2SLGBTQI+ Communities"
*FTM/Butch at podium*
*Drag queens and/or non-passing trans people around, with one in a mask and one looking like a child*
Meme - *Possible MTF with "Kill the Terf" on T-shirt*
*Probable MTF with "I Punch TERFS" top with fake blood*
*Probable MTF with painted white face, naked except for V underwear with "Kill Da TERFS" written on torso*
*Man with "Feminist As Fuck" mask and "Kill the TERF" T-shirt*
Meme - *Trans march with people in wheelchairs and masks and other non-normal looking people*
